Size uk 6-8 dress size

[MonicaBingaling]

Am I being unrealistic trying to achieve this when I am a size 12-14?

I am 5 feet 7 and weigh 10st 6

Lost over a stone since April but want to go further, but do u think it is possible or am I being unrealistic?

At that height?

You didn't mention your daughter's height. I'm only an inch shorter than the OP and, as I said in an earlier post, an easy size 6 in most clothes. I'm wearing US size 0 shorts at the moment. As for boobs, adult clothes usually make allowances for them, although I must admit I do choose clothes carefully to accommodate mine. I tend to avoid anything with teddy bears or my little pony on them.

Depending on her build, I can't see any reason the OP couldn't get down to a size 8 or even 6 if she puts her mind to it.

If you want to see how unlike a prepubescent child I look, follow the link I posted further up.

I'm not going to comment of people's photos of themselves, that could be rude. I don't know why you are posting them by the way.

Op, I've been a size 6 at 5 foot 1 and was pretty slim. Is it realistic for you, would you be able to maintain it, why do you want to be that size. Life is a balance and if it's not your natural size it might never be possible.

@Angelzeye that's really interesting about the body frame size calculator. I'm 5'8" so significantly taller than the above 5'5" higher threshold and my wrist measures less than 6" so well under the 6.25" for small build. I've never come across that before but have long since thought that hands/wrists & feet/ankles are often an indicator of someone's natural size. You see pictures of celebs who have lost loads of weight but sometimes when you look at their wrists and ankles they are proportionately much larger than their new size. I wonder if it's possible or not to have slim wrists but not ankles for example. My DD is the same height as me, weighs the same but is definitely naturally a bigger build. Her wrists and ankles are bigger than mine but she has a tiny waist with a bum and muscular legs whereas I am much more straight up and down.

I'm not going to comment of people's photos of themselves, that could be rude. I don't know why you are posting them by the way.

Go for it. You're pretty rude anyway!

And if I want to post pictures, I will: I need neither your understanding nor approval.

I also couldn’t maintain that weight. That’s because I am not naturally built to be a size 6 to 8. My bones (specifically hip and ribcage) are far too wide so it’s futile to even try. Lots of teenagers don’t have fully developed hip bones which is why so few women have the same figure they did at 15.
I also think that if you’re over 30, maybe even 25 that there’s a trade off to be made with having a plump and youthful face. If you want to be super-skinny then you will have to accept a super-skinny face too. Maybe it’s just me but I would a hundred times rather be a 10-12 (my goal) and keep the fat in my face than super thin with a gaunt look.

I'm not going to comment of people's photos of themselves, that could be rude. I don't know why you are posting them by the way.

I posted a link mine to illustrate how ridiculous some posters are being when they liken healthy size 6 women with skeletons or prepubescent children.

Does that help?

a link to mine

Looking great @PhoneLock I've said it before

I'm 5'4'' and size 6 (sometimes 8), my weight is 7.4st and I'm 35 years old. According to BMI I'm very very underweight (years of diets, calories counting, supplement taking didn't bump my weight up). I blame genetics (all my family is like that ) !

I'm healthy, but I look like walking skeleton! My ribs are visible, I have thin arms - like toothpicks, flat boobs and bum! It hurts to sit on hard surfaces - not enough bum fat cushion And I can't wear whatever I want - a lot of clothes hang on me like I'm a plastic hanger

Why would you want to look like me?

It's really neither here no there how much other folk weigh or how tall they are. Everyone is different and only you now how you feel.
A good idea is to pick a weight that is easy enough for you to maintain without counting calories/exercise. And one that you feel healthy at. By healthy I mean energetic, not permanently cold and with no changes to your menstrual cycle.

Picking a clothes size or point on the scale is IMO the not best measure. Comparing yourself to others is dangerous.

And by counting cals/exercise I mean exercising so that you can eat more calories. Not exercising at all. Exercise is good!

Op why are you aiming so low and do you feel you could maintain it? Personally I’d recommend going for a healthy weight you can maintain.

I think it depends what size 6-8 you're referring to.

Next, matalan, dorothy perkins, sainsbury's etc all run really large, and I would compare that to a topshop/new look size 10- which I think would be achievable.

I'm 5'7, 9 stone 3-5 and that size

Last post really sums up why this kind of thread isn't a good idea.
I'm 5.7 and at 9 stone I don't have periods. I'm presuming PP is healthy at that weight which illustrates just how other factors other than height and weight need to be taken into consideration.

We are all different. I think body shape is a big factor in whether you're healthy at the upper or lower end of the healthy weight range. I am very pear shaped, most of my weight is in my very strong and sturdy legs (I say that like it's a good thing, I hate them!) and my top half is very slim and I have a flat stomach. If I had skinny legs and carried my weight around my middle I would probably weigh a lot less but be less healthier.

Personally I’d recommend going for a healthy weight you can maintain.

I don't think the OP has actually mentioned a target weight, just a dress size range: 6 - 8. If she can attain that, then she should be able to maintain it... if she wants to.

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace Well done! I think you look great btw and you are way more toned than I am.
This is a weight loss board, why can't people post pictures if they want?

Imo the only way to lose weight sustainably though is to find a healthier, more filling diet that you can stick to for life and then see where you end up naturally. Less sugar, less processed food, white flour, more healthy fats, proteins and vegetables.

You might end up 'size 6', you might not.

But setting a 'goal' suggests the diet you're going to follow to get there might be overly calorie restrictive and when reached you hope to go back to eating 'normally' and that will almost certainly lead to gaining weight back no matter how much will power you think you have. And so you wouldn't stay size 6 that way for very long.

I wouldn't focus on this. Dress sizes are pretty meaningless and I can't convince myself (in 40s now) that a modern 6-8 is a 'real' 6-8 (very small).

I'm 5'9 and 9 stone, pretty muscular. Have always been this size, or a little less. When I was 20, I was a size 10 and sometimes a 12 or 14 in trousers. I never bought anything in a size 8 until my mid-30s after shops had gone mad for vanity sizing. I still know people a lot smaller and thinner than me (like my mother) and they buy children's clothes now. I am rarely a size 6, except in M&S which has MASSIVE sizes.

So I think you would need to lose at least a stone and a half to get down to this size, and even then you would hardly be waiflike. A modern size 6-8 is quite thin at my height, I would say, but not small. My jeans are usually a size 25 now and they are exactly the same size as my old Levi's with a 30 inch waist. It's just commercial appeals to people's vanity to get them to buy more stuff.

Why not take pleasure in the fact that healthy normal weights are distributed over a large range and take pride in the weight loss you've already achieved?

I agree dress sizes are a bit meaningless. I’m generally an 8/10, I have a few tops that are a 6 and a dress in size 14. I just bought a pair of pjs in a 12 because I wanted them to be loose and comfy but they’re too tight around waist...
Some shops don’t even sell size 6. I think going from a 12 to the smallest size available in most places seems a bit overkill.

I’m 5ft 6 and 8st 5. Size 6/8. I have a healthy diet and exercise regularly. I can assure folk I am not anorexic or underweight. Everyone has different bone structures and carry weight different. It bugs me when folk say oh to be that size you will need to be seriously underweight. That’s not always the case!

Depends on your body shape. I’d say looking and being healthy are more attractive rather than a target size. Focussing in this can lead to obsession, and half the time when you get there you don’t look how you imagined and still aren’t healthy.
I am 5ft 5. Last year I was 8st 4lb and a size 6-8. I am hourglass shape, yet I still got comments from people saying I should put wait on. I want dieting, just stressed s the weight fell off.
Now I am 9st 2lb, still hourglass and a size 8, in a couple of shops a 10. I look healthier now.
I think at 5ft 7 and size 6-8, I don’t know, I think you’d look too skinny depending on your build and how you carry it tbh

*weight

I'm 5ft 7in and about the same weight op.

Even at my skinniest in my 20s I only got down to a size 10/12 and I weighed nearly 2 stone less than I do now!

A size 6/8 for someone who is 5ft 7in is too thin imo.

@Girliefriendlikespuppies

I'm 5ft 7in and about the same weight op.

Even at my skinniest in my 20s I only got down to a size 10/12 and I weighed nearly 2 stone less than I do now!

A size 6/8 for someone who is 5ft 7in is too thin imo.

That’s rude.

Just because you have never been naturally slim, it doesn’t mean that others can’t naturally be a size 6 or 8 at the same height. By naturally, I mean without being unwell/unhealthy or starving themselves as you’re suggesting. It’s easy for young people to maintain a slim figure, I’m in my early 20s and my tall/slim friends can and do wear 6/8s rather than 10/12s. Your experience isn’t indicative of others yet here you are passing judgement that they are apparently “too thin”.

@healththrowawayx exactly!

I think it really depends on your body type. I was 8st 10 there and a size six. I thought I was way too skinny.